HONG KONG (AFP) - World number two Rory McIlroy sealed the US$2.75 million UBS Hong Kong Open Sunday by holing a birdie chip from a bunker on the last, keeping alive his slim hopes of denying Luke Donald an historic Order of Merit double. "I think that's the most excited I've ever been on a golf ...

JOHOR BAHR (Reuters) - Champion Padraig Harrington battled a stomach complaint to birdie four of his closing nine holes and move into a three-way tie for second place at 11-under par at the close of the second round of the rain-affected Johor Open. The triple major winning Harrington said he had ...

Mohsin Ali ISLAMABAD Tehreem won the Women Open category of the inaugural Red Bull Dark Knights downhill mountain bike night race by clocking 48.67 seconds held last night at the Margalla Hills, on Trail 1 started at 6:30 pm Amna placed second positions with 63 seconds while Hadia got third ...

THE BBC is to introduce a new radio website, codenamed 'Audiopedia, to contain virtually its entire archive of speech radio programmes going back to the 1940s. The service is being developed for launch within the next 12 months, said Tim Davie, director of BBC Audio and Music. Audiopedia, its ...

LAHORE - Pakistan top tennis star Aisamul Haq and Austrian Oliver Marach breezed into the semi-finals of Thailand Open ATP Tournament making short work of their Italian opponents Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini 6-4, 6-1 win. Asiam and his Austrian partner Oliver exhibited their brilliant prowess ...

SEOUL (AFP) - Spaniard Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez beat Kazakhstans Galina Voskoboeva in the final of the $220,000 Hansol Korea Open on Sunday to win her fifth WTA title. The 29-year-old Martinez Sanchez defeated Voskoboeva, a first-time WTA finalist, 7-6 7-6 to win her first hardcourt tournament ...

WINSTON-SALEM (AFP) - Andy Roddick finally won his first match of the summer, advancing to the second round of the ATP Winston-Salem Open on Tuesday with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Edouard Roger-Vasselin. Local boy John Isner, seeded fourth, also won his opening match in the last event before the start of ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman are expected to be among the first Australian stars to feature when waxworks museum Madame Tussauds opens a venue in Sydney next year, the company said Thursday. The world-famous London attraction will begin welcoming visitors in the Darling Harbour ...

NEW DELHI (Agencies) - Top seeds Sania Mirza of India and Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan clinched the Citi Open women's doubles title, defeating second seeds Olga Govortsova of Belarus and Alla Kudryavtseva of Russia 6-3, 6-3. It was Sania's third doubles title this year and 12th overall. It took ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The central leader of the PML-Q, Chaudhry Moonis Elahi (currently in lock-up) has, in a strong-worded letter, sent to the President, the Prime Minister, parliamentarians, the Editors and owners of the national dailies and television channels, condemned the recent ...

VANCOUVER (AFP) - American Kris Blanks fired a three-under-par 67 on Thursday to take a one-shot first-round lead at the Canadian Open over a big group of players including South African Ernie Els. Els was joined on two-under 68 by Matt McQuillan, who was the best of 17 Canadians in the ...

SANDWICH (AFP) - Darren Clarke took the outright lead in the British Open early into Saturday's third round using his expertise in wet-weather play to cope with the dreadful playing conditions. The popular 42-year-old Ulsterman started the day tied for the lead at four under with American Lucas ...

LAHORE The Lahore High Court Justice Umar Ata Bandial Thursday directed the authorities concerned to keep the Bibi Pakdaman Shrine open for the public visit throughout the night on July 17, on the occasion of Shab-e-Barat. Accepting the plea in this regard the court also directed the police to ...

SANDWICH (AFP) - Rory McIlroy will try to emulate Tiger Woods at Royal St George's here this week by winning the British Open four weeks after winning the US Open. Woods was the last to achieve that rare feat in 2000 when he staggered the golf world by winning the US Open at Pebble Beach by 15 ...

COLORADO SPRINGS (AFP) - Ryu So-yeon captured the US Women's Open on Monday by rolling in two birdies in a three-hole aggregate playoff to edge South Korean compatriot Seo Hee-kyung. It was the first major title for Ryu who forced the playoff with a birdie on the final hole of regulation in the ...

BETHESDA (AFP) - Rory McIlroy captured his first major golf title in historic fashion on Sunday, turning the final round of the 111th US Open into a virtual victory lap on his way to an eight-stroke triumph. The 22-year-old Northern Ireland prodigy fired a two-under par 69 to finish 72 holes at ...

SPORTS DESK LAHORE - Pakistan ace star Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and his Indian partner Rohan Bopanna and rallied from a set down to advance to the semi-finals of Gerry Weber Open with a 4-6, 7-6 (5), 10-4 victory over Dustin Brown of Germany and France's Gael Monfils at Halle, (Germany) says an ...

Our Staff Reporter KARACHI - Promising Pakistani Hammad Ahmed Tarar has won the Milo All Star Junior Squash Championship, 2011, Under-11 Squash title defeating his Indian opponent Veer Chotrani 11-3, 11-1, 9-11, 11-2 in a well-contested match in Selangor, Malaysia, according to information ...

NEWPORT (AFP) - Sweden's Alex Noren won the European Tour Wales Open by two strokes at Celtic Manor here on Sunday. Norens only previous victory was the 2009 European Masters, shot a final round of 70 for a nine-under-par aggregate total of 275. Anders Hansen and France's Gregory Bourdy were the ...

After 10 years of bloody battle in Afghanistan, the United States is trolling for Taliban officials to talk peace with before the July drawdown of American troops. Washingtons special envoy, Marc Grossman, has a one-point agenda: to reconcile Afghanistans warring factions, say Western diplomats in ...

PARIS (PTI) - Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi bowed out of the French Open mens doubles event with a straight-set defeat against unseeded Australian combination of Stephen Huss and Ashley Fisher on Saturday. The formidable third seed Indian pair, who were the runners-up at Australian Open this ...

PARIS (Agencies) - Aiming to win their third French Open title together, Indian veterans Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi have been seeded third in the clay court Grand Slam and will open their campaign against the German pair of Tommy Haas and Philipp Petzschner. Paes and Bhupathi were champions ...

JEJU (AFP) - Australia's Kurt Barnes won the SK Telecom Open by one shot from South Korea's Kim Kyung-Tae after Sunday's final round was cancelled due to fog at Pinx Golf Club. Big-hitting Barnes was a doubt to even start the OneAsia event due to a shoulder injury, but the 29-year-old made a key ...

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT WASHINGTON - The International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC), the policy advisory body of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has called for an "open, transparent and merit-based" process in selecting a new IMF head. "The selection process for a new Managing ...

MANILA (AFP) - Berry Henson of the United States held off a plucky late charge from local hope Jay Bayron to win his first Asian Tour title at the gruelling $300,000 ICTSI Philippine Open on Sunday. The Asian Tour rookie made a pivotal up-and-down for par on the last hole to close with one-over-par ...

MADRID (AFP) - Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal both extended their win streaks with opening victories at the ATP-WTA Madrid Masters on Wednesday as Roger Federer waited for his chance to join them in the third round. Djokovic, who beat South Africa's Kevin Anderson 6-3, 6-4, extended his run of ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Serena and Venus Williams have shaken off injuries that have sidelined them from competitive tennis, but whether or not they will be ready for next month's French Open remains uncertain. "The French Open is a great tournament. It's a fun event. We definitely want to be there," ...

CHENGDU (China) (Reuters) - Little-known Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts was on track for his first European Tour title after the China Open third round on Saturday while former world number two Sergio Garcia slipped out of contention. Spaniard Garcia, chasing his first victory since 2009, could only ...

Now that the U.S.-led air war has failed to produce a quick collapse of Moammar Gadhafis government, and his forces are beating back the advances of Libyas feckless rebels, the word exile is being bandied about as something Gadhafi is seriously considering. Uganda says it will give him exile.Italy ...

LAHORE A five-day Pakistan Urban Forum 2011 will be held in the provincial metropolis from March 1 next and it will be inaugurated by Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif. The forum will be attended by foreign delegates, experts from various fields, representatives of NGOs, male and ...